San Pedro woman killed in crash when ejected from car identified

LOS ANGELES - Authorities Monday released the name of a 48-year-old San Pedro woman who was thrown from a Buick Regal and killed in unincorporated Westmont near South Los Angeles when the car crashed into several parked vehicles.

She was Olga Lily Herrarte, said coroner’s Lt. Joe Bale.

The accident occurred at 10:45 p.m. Saturday on 120th Street west of Vermont Avenue, according to California Highway Patrol Officer Francisco Villalobos. The call originally came in as a person pinned under a vehicle, Villalobos said.

``A gray, 1982 Buick Regal was traveling eastbound on 120th Street at Budlong Avenue when, for unknown reasons, the driver lost control of the vehicle causing it to collide with several vehicles parked along the south curb of 120th Street,’’ said CHP Officer S. Taylor, who investigated the incident at the scene.

``During the course of the collision, the female passenger was ejected from the vehicle and subsequently run over,’’ he said. The woman was not believed to have been wearing a seatbelt.

``The driver fled the scene on foot and was last seen running northbound on Budlong Avenue,’’ Taylor said.

A CHP sergeant at the scene said two vehicles had been racing on 120th Street before the fatal accident, a news photographer reported.

Anyone with information about the accident was urged to contact Officer Taylor at the CHP West Los Angeles office at (310) 642-3939.